Our Faculty

The American Mathematical Society recently published Braid Foliations in
Low-Dimensional Topology, co-authored by UB Mathematics
Professor William W. Menasco, and Western Illinois University
Professor Douglas J. LaFountain. This book is a self-contained
introduction to braid foliation techniques, which is a theory
developed to study knots, links and surfaces in general 3-manifolds
and more specifically in contact 3-manifolds. Professor Menasco is
currently serving UB Math as Director of Graduate Studies. Learn more.

A new paper by Gino Biondini and colleagues at the University of
Colorado Boulder brings us closer to finding an answer. The
research, published in August in the Proceedings of the Royal
Society A, lays out a set of newly formulated equations that
are designed to characterize what happens when an undular bore
occurs and spreads along two axes. Visually, this phenomenon
resembles the concentric ripples that proliferate outward when you
toss a stone into a pond. Read more.

UB Math welcomes Alexandru Chirvasitu to our faculty in Fall
2017. His work includes: representation theory with a quantum group
flavour; non-commutative geometry and some functional analysis and
operator algebras; category theory; and some algebraic geometry,
mostly foundational issues, such as scheme/stack reconstruction
from category-theoretic data. Chirvasitu is co-author of Exotic
Elliptic Algebras of dimension 4 (with S. Paul Smith)
forthcoming in Advances in Mathematics. We look forward
to watching his impressive publication repository continue to grow
as a member of our faculty.

Hanfeng Li has co-authored a new book with David Kerr,
entitled, Ergodic Theory: Independence and Dichotomies. The
book provides an introduction to the ergodic theory and topological
dynamics of actions of countable groups.

Hanfeng Li has received the UB Exceptional Scholar Sustained
Achievement Award for outstanding research over the past several
years. His publication "Soficity, amenability, and dynamical
entropy" is forthcoming.

Sarah Muldoon joins us in August 2015, coming from the
bioengineering department at the University of Pennsylvania. Her
research involves novel techniques and measures to investigate and
quantify the role of network organization in brain function.

Li Wang joins us in January 2016, coming from the mathematics
department at the University of California Los Angeles. Wang
recently published An asymptotic-preserving scheme for the
semiconductor Boltzmann equation toward the energy-transport
limit.